domctl lock open to abuse

ISSUE DESCRIPTION To create and manage guests, domctl operations are used by the control domain, a possible Xenstore domain, or by a domain controlling a particular guest. Some of these operations may not be executed in parallel, so a system-wide lock is used. The way that lock is acquired is,...

Arm issues with page refcounting

ISSUE DESCRIPTION There are two issues related to the mapping of pages belonging to other domains: For one, an assertion is wrong there, where the case actually needs handling. A NULL pointer de-reference could result on a release build. This is CVE-2025-58144. And then the P2M lock isn't held...

Mutiple vulnerabilities in the Viridian interface

ISSUE DESCRIPTION There are multiple issues related to the handling and accessing of guest memory pages in the viridian code: 1. A NULL pointer dereference in the updating of the reference TSC area. This is CVE-2025-27466. 2. A NULL pointer dereference by assuming the SIM page is mapped when a...

CVE-2020-25598

An issue was discovered in Xen 4.14.x. There is a missing unlock in the XENMEMacquireresource error path. The RCU Read, Copy, Update mechanism is a synchronisation primitive. A buggy error path in the XENMEMacquireresource exits without releasing an RCU reference, which is conceptually similar to...

Grant table hypercall infinite loop DoS vulnerability

ISSUE DESCRIPTION Due to inappropriate duplicate use of the same loop control variable, passing bad arguments to GNTTABOPgetstatusframes can cause an infinite loop in the compat hypercall handler. IMPACT A malicious guest administrator can trigger the bug. If the Xen watchdog is enabled, the whol...